"Angry Birds" #1 by Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin, Paco Rodriques, Marco Gervasio and César Ferioli brings the game characters into a comic of their own and add some extra jokes and a little more dimension to the eternal Birds vs. Pigs combat.

Jeff Parker and Paul Pelletier at least temporarily wrap up the Hercules storyline in "Aquaman" #30, even as it feels like the title is integrating itself a little better with some other isolated pockets of the DC Universe.

"Indestructible Hulk Annual" #1 by Jeff parker and Mahmud Asrar is a Hulk/Iron Man teamup story set in a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It's "Science Bros" meets "The Island of Dr. Moreau," except with only one monst

Jeff Parker, Christos Gage, and Brian Ching show us a mystical coven in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland" #3, and pull off an important trick: they make a potentially false happy ending seem real.

In "Red She-Hulk" #61 Jeff Parker, Carlo Pagulayan and Wellington Alves shift the spotlight off of Machine Man and onto the titanic female lead, giving Betty Ross more paneltime than she has had to this point in the series.

A new era begins as Jeff Parker and Neil Edwards finally give the Dark Avengers control of their eponymous title in "Dark Avengers" #184. Of course, every jumping-on point has the potential for readers to jump off.

"Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland" #1 by Jeff Parker and Brian Ching has fun jokes and pretty art, but the story suffers from a lack of interesting action and a derivative, unimaginative setting.